A firearm and 154 pounds of heroin worth at least $50 million are displayed at a Drug Enforcement Administration news conference in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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It is technically possible to get fired from the Drug Enforcement Administration, but you apparently have to work pretty hard at it. Records from the agency's files show that since 2010, agents have escaped with warnings or suspensions after falsifying records, misusing government vehicles while drunk, associating with criminals, failing drug tests, and even distributing drugs, reports USA Today. Some of the few who were actually fired—including an agent who threatened to give a homemade sex video to his girlfriend's 8-year-old daughter—were reinstated by the independent agency that reviews federal firings.

"If we conducted an investigation, and an employee actually got terminated, I was surprised," a former DEA internal affairs investigator tells USA Today. "I was truly, truly surprised. Like, wow, the system actually got this guy." Lawmakers have long criticized the agency for failing to crack down hard enough on misconduct, and earlier this year, Michele Leonhart stepped down as DEA chief after it emerged that agents who admitted attending cartel-funded sex parties in Colombia received a maximum punishment of a 10-day suspension. (A student forgotten in a DEA cell for five days received a $4.1 million payout, while the six agents involved received letters of reprimand and two of them were suspended for up to a week.)

I am former Law Enforcement with over 25 years plus experience.(U.S. Secret Service, SDPD, U.S. Mint, U.S. Customs & Immigration, also trained by DEA/CIA) I am fully aware of the problems in most all the agencies especially the ones where the MONEY is BIG involving the apprehension of Drug Smugglers and Cartel members. I left he agency because I am a Whistle-blower and have exposed such things. I also got DEATH THREATS in which I received no real protection other than my own.The agency didn;t seem to care and the DOJ/U.S. Attorney's office and FBI didn't do much either. Yes, the FBI also has some corrupt people inside it's ranks.The Government has tried unsuccessful to damage me and lost and have done their worst.Whistle-blowers like myself and former DEA Agent Cele Castillo are still under attack and the Public is too dumbed down to really understand what it takes to Expose the corruption Without support or backing.The U./S. Attorney's office is very corrupt. See also: www.customscorruption.com or get Rodney Stich's book: "Drugging America"....

Reluctant Patriot

Sep 28, 2015 9:25 PM CDT

DEA, FBI, Secret Service - they all have skeletons in their closets.

$82496178

Sep 28, 2015 3:56 PM CDT

The alphabet soup of Federal law enforcement agencies grows and grows. We have more Federal watchdogs (and attack dogs) than Hitler's Third Reich, or Stalin's Soviet Union. The only law enforcement agency you have any control over, is your county sheriff's office. You elect the sheriff, and you can put him or her out of a job. All other agencies, state and Federal, are beyond your reach, and are largely unaccountable for their actions.